UI UX Design

Recently, responsive web design and adaptive web design has set off a trend in the design industry. When you start to design a new site or redesign of the site, which design to select is quite a wrenching question. Facing with the picky boss and client, how to explain the definition is a test for the website designers. If they want the former design style, how do you explain to them the pros and cons of responsive web design? What is responsive web design? Responsive Web Design  (RWD) is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop webpages to be viewed in response to the size of the screen or web browser one is viewing with. It means to offer the same support to a variety of devices for a single website. How to create the responsive web design? Three steps you should take into consideration: 1. Media query. That is, specify a different CSS display style. 2. Fluid grid. Percentage% will be used in CSS rather than absolute values. 3. Fluid ima...

What best UX books do you read? In any cases, the following 10 best user experience books is what you can never miss. They will guide you through the whole design process from the bumping up of your idea to the user testing methods. What are you waiting for? Let’s check’ em out. Rudiments: 1.Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability This book is highly recommended for those who work in an internet company. The best user experience book about  website usability test  includes a great variety of principles of design decision making. If you never hear of it, it is your loss. 2.The Design of Everyday Things This book involves a wider scope of design. What are the expectations shall we have toward the product design? What kind of design is what we called, a good design? How about the bad ones? The answers will all be revealed in this yellow book. Design process: 3.A Project Guide to UX Design This best user experience...

From  the 20 best website homepage design examples , that shows the landing page of websites and APP are normally combined with homepage design. We can get a glimpse of the importance of the landing page design. The product landing page design will directly attract users and enhance the quality of the product. The landing page is a battleground which gives a full play to emotional design, enhances the user experience, and close the distance with users. Regardless of the  website design trends  or mobile APP design, it is important t o find a balance between small pretty and functional complexity. At the first phase of web design, it’s necessary to master the skills of product landing page design by taking the advantage of  prototyping tools  such as Mockplus, Axure. In this stage, designers have no worry about the modifying on design. Here are some product landing page examples combined with the design principles. 1. Learning to do subtraction Do not be r...

Apple is not perfect and also has some deficiencies in its design. Following are several design mistakes in  iOS app UI design  during its process of version updates. These contents only represent my personal view. Please feel free to discuss if there is any different opinion. 1. The notification centers of iOS7 and iOS8 follow first the inverted order of notification receiving time and second the order of app classification, greatly decreasing users’ efficiency of notification processing. In the notification centers of iOS9 and iOS10, the previous complex classification of the notifications (first the inverted order of notification receiving time and second the order of app classification) is changed to the integration of time as a whole, increasing the efficiency of notification processing. I guess everyone should have been tortured by this design mistake before using iOS9: click close buttons one by one to clear all the notifications. In this information-overlo...